From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from vps0.lunn.ch (vps0.lunn.ch [156.67.10.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0B4B3A5E88 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 2026 22:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782943355; cv=none; b=W5d2ozTNg77X+JC4vMxU1ffqEaQAfEgPibneW+su7NFzwGlil1HB5b9Mt4koA2psnPKh/BVpJ7rV4+j2wOXHa9UPiQf9gICFRyQLe89o2U2WXJ6YWrqhSnfHqDoe4HUaQl6e/+b7lGlZNNjYsv91ATX4KNADMsqeLaiRM/GQJU0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1782943355; c=relaxed/simple; bh=kr4bcxC/dJNL/p9YnDZFXA1SkXrSGQVEM/mRsdYVN08=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ghxo51Pe8KQIGup6BUttZH3w8GkZQhuwmw1RrLA2RFYsmc3ZfG7RJhDj+spb1neghPlxTcCad1FPMffkLzcDzppbTmTAMVgcI0dmpyEWcx1gLPmjIChOcdnQgvi4qKY4pyWTNYxyZD++FMOV4axlDPBOF57DOz4ZBRm0CmudjEw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b=rAtKKDui; arc=none smtp.client-ip=156.67.10.101 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lunn.ch Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=lunn.ch header.i=@lunn.ch header.b="rAtKKDui" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lunn.ch; s=20171124; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Disposition:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:From:Sender:Reply-To:Subject: Date:Message-ID:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:References; bh=a7PRHhd25zJ9fx+ykVI+yclz/Tlnz81LDvMfvcCb4mc=; b=rAtKKDuiBdLEh0uFWgNQule/2u p05BlRPnzNFUWpKlbU39EjiUjUkLQ++vjmd7xXYVwLIvkEThYH7swr5lT9uxzG5ejDRIO+8SxKLCd gIx+emqWrUowMxqhn4hNPYOWfzZqNf0xvA3RuMlj2L4RMTyIdWGVexGukY2RG5qSVDEw=; Received: from andrew by vps0.lunn.ch with local (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1wf30n-00AFZv-0C; Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:02:29 +0200 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 00:02:28 +0200 From: Andrew Lunn To: "Srinivasan, Vijay" Cc: "Das, Shubham" , Alexander Duyck , Lee Trager , Maxime Chevallier , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "mkubecek@suse.cz" , "D H, Siddaraju" , "Chintalapalle, Balaji" , "Lindberg, Magnus" , "niklas.damberg@ericsson.com" , "Wirandi, Jonas" Subject: Re: Ethtool : PRBS feature Message-ID: <26d44b09-d72c-4e23-84a6-3d0ea4a521ef@lunn.ch> References: <5f22c491-b816-421e-a531-bf87a07fea70@lunn.ch> <08f1b0c2-2b09-4c30-b95a-02959d409a03@trager.us> <38359a70-ebc7-49c5-bae5-0d3d7bf82fac@lunn.ch> <6e905826-779a-456d-a37d-7602a37ab6d7@lunn.ch> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 09:38:08PM +0000, Srinivasan, Vijay wrote: > Hi Andrew, > I think there is a disconnect here. Which proves my point. The specification is not sufficient if you have to keep correcting me. The kAPI should be understandable by somebody who has a general networking background. Please write a specification with that assumption in mind. Don't assume the reader is a test engineer who has used PRBS for half his life. Assume it is a brand new test engineer who is hearing PRBS for the first time. That is what most engineers on the netdev list are. Me included. Andrew